Here I am standing at the veranda at my hotel room looking at the ocean and envying its calmness and freedom. Ten years of being in this industry and the challenges that arise gets harder and harder each time. It’s true what they say, the more you love the deeper the heartache. I close my eyes and take one last glimpse of what once was, forgetting the past and gaining the strength for the new me, a more fierce, confident, and independent me. Today is a new hope, a new chapter. Gone is the young, naïve girl the world once knew. I take one deep breath and slowly open my eyes. As the wind sweeps across my face, I whisper, “This is it, a new chapter, a new found hope. God give me strength.”
